[microgood]

I am just so thankful Big Brother is here to protect me from myself. Lowest Common Denominator Logic.

[rolling_stone]

I would really like to know how many fires were started from barbecues on decks....

[holdmuhbeer]

I say go get a garden hose and attach it to your deck overhead and put a yard sprinkler on the end. LOL.

[PAR35]

Most landlords put this in their leases 20 or more years ago in most parts of the country. There must be a dearth of good transactional lawyers in Wash. state.

[Joe Hadenuf]

People who live in apartments or condos

Glad I don't live in one of those things. We call apartments and condos worker barracks, controlled by socialist homeowner association types.

[CalifornianConservative]

Actually, you would be surprised at the bimbos who do this in high rise apartments.

[Begin]

While we're at it, let's also impose a ban on mothers and apple pies.

[Phantom Lord]

The rules apply to multifamily residential buildings, which are defined as three or more attached units.

It is common in this area for a real estate investor / builder to put up triplexes and quadplexes. Same thing as a duplex but with 3 or 4 units. They are attached side by side, not above and below. By reading this, it seems residents of said properties would be banned from using a grill on their deck/porch. But the guy next door in a duplex would be free to do so.

This is a BS law and should be fought.

Same with the Christmas tree bull.

[stainlessbanner]

Are big green eggs allowed?

[muawiyah]

Went looking to see just how many apartment fires there are per year where a barbeque was the cause. My search of www.google.com revealed 82 possible situations. Only one of them involved an actual fire. That was at: http://www.kxly920.com/common/getStory.asp?id=36508

The other 81 were mostly about why you can't use your barbeque on your apartment balcony.

Now how long have we had the internet? Since 1995, more or less, and ONE FIRE!

I get 1,720 hits when I look for "cigarette starts apartment fire".

Whoever worked up the building code requirements is paranoic. Someone in the building racket should find that individual and get him or her to the doctor as soon as possible. New meds are needed!

[Feiny]

Without my grill, I would starve!

Just try to stop me......I am a grilling machine.
Beer Brats with onions tonight!

[BlazingArizona]

Common sense has left the building! Good night, Seattle.

[spunkets]

"a new 600-page International Building Code"

Get the US out of the UN!

[Huntingtonian]

They can have my BBQ when they take it from my cold dead hands!

[freeeee]

Wow, those poor communists sure have it rough. Imagine not being able to have a grill! I'm sure glad I live in the US where this could never happen because we're free!

BTW, anyone know why this article was printed in English, not Chinese?

[Steve_Seattle]

"State officials may still revisit the ban, as well as another regulation buried in the code: a ban on cut Christmas trees in apartments, meeting halls, stores, jails, schools, hospitals, day cares, and churches. Like the barbecue ban, the Christmas tree rule applies if there is no overhead sprinkler."

Is the next step banning Christmas trees in private homes?

[finnman69]

Totally unenforcable.

[Rebelbase]

This law is in effect in my town. No grills allowed on decks or patios of apartments or condos. (yes condos)

My girlfriend has a ground level condo with a condo that connects to a sidewalk. I just roll the grill off the patio onto the sidewalk and I'm in business.

The people on the upper levels hate me.

[jaime1959]

Buy stock in George Foreman Grill Enterprises.

[Republicus2001]

I wonder if illegals will still be able to use their Weber inside in their apartment in the place of a stove? - if not I think it's at least racist if not a matter of church and state and besides it's Bushfault anyway

[ought-six]

Come on, this is in Washington State, the looniest of the loony left coast states.